LinkedIn's Top Buzzwords of the Year as Told Through Cheesy Stock Photos

Buzzwords: We're all guilty of using them. Sometimes, we use them in a meeting with our boss, just to show them we're smart. Sometimes, we use them in emails, just because they're jargon that everyone knows. Sometimes, we're just trying to land a job and the buzzwords just sound right.

And this week, LinkedIn kinda put us on the spot by releasing a list of the top 10 buzzwords used on LinkedIn profiles. Thanks, LinkedIn. Now everyone will see that I have 4 out of the 10 most egregious buzzwords on my profile.

Since I'm definitely not alone in buzzword abundance (these are the top 10 in the world, after all), we thought we'd take LinkedIn's list one step further using buzzwords' cousin: cheesy stock photos. To make light of the situation and make you think about changing up your own profile, we paired up the following buzzwords and terrible stock photos.

1) Responsible

You're so responsible you literally held the whole world in your hands.

2) Strategic

You've graduated from connecting the dots to interlocking multiple gears in your organization.

3) Creative

You are so creative, you can paint splotches of color on a ladder while in a surreal setting.

4) Effective

You've made your team so effective they are exactly like cogs in a wheel.

5) Patient

You never mind waiting, including for clocks to strike noon.

6) Expert

How else will people know that you're an expert in something without you telling them? Bonus points if you have boxing gloves in your profile picture to show you really mean business.

7) Organizational

You help people "sync up" or "get on the same page" -- with and without cheesy team building activities.

8) Driven

"Hey everyone! Come and see how driven I am!"

9) Innovative

Your innovative mind allows you to literally ignite ideas in other people.

10) Analytical

Your data analyses are so spot on, you can make numbers come to life.

Which of these buzzwords do you have on your own profile? Share your most egregious buzzwords with us in the comments -- we promise this is a safe place.

Vic!
I'm stealing your description!
"As an Innovative Expert Responsible for Strategic Organizational change, I’m Driven to apply my Creative and Analytical skills to create Effective solutions—and Patient enough to ensure their success."
And then I'll add, "...and I want to bring world peace and end world hunger."
Jokes aside....thanks for some great info!

How strange...
"As an innovative expert responsible for strategic organisational change, I’m driven to apply my creative and analytical skills to create effective solutions—and patient enough to ensure their success."
Vic's obviously been looking at my bio - a verbatim copy of the one I've just deleted. Now I've had to shove up something in plain English which will impress no one.
Thanks Vic - what was your last one like?

If I see one more picture of someone in a field with their arms open wide I will probably unfriend that person or dislike that page or block something or someone. Come on folks. Those horrible stock images really downgrade your status. I guess you all know this.....also sometimes there are lots of #hashtags in #profiles it makes it #difficult to #read like a #ransom #note. I think hashtags hit their highest this year.....I should #hashtag and see....

Love this! But let's not forget about my all time favorites, like:
Disruptive
Groundbreaking
Pivotal
Revolutionary
Solutions
Now let's try to use these in a sentence: "the company has a revolutionarily disruptive product that provides pivotal solutions using groundbreaking technologies."
bam!